PYRAMUS AND THISBE

• Summary
• Pyramus and Thisbe grow up and live in adjacent houses, but their parents only let them see each other through a hole in a wall.
• Over time, the two fall in love.
• Both of these people grow angry at their parents
• They go and to a white mulberry bush, symbolizing purity, to have intercourse
• Thisbe sees a lion with blood around it's mouth
• Thisbe is frightened, and she runs from the lion.
• Pyramaus thinks she was eaten, so he kills himself.
• Then Thisbe kills herself as well.
• This is why the mulberry bushes are red.
• Modern Connection
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• Pyramus and Thisbe have a connection that is known today, but is not very recent.
• William Shakespeare made many connections to this myth in his novels.
• Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is very similar to this famous myth.
• Also, In Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Dream a crude representation of the myth is done in a play by characters of thebook
• Also, throughout the novel, the theme of forbidden love is represented.